The Distinguished Lecturer Awards are presented to honor interesting speakers who have made recent significant contributions to the field of lasers and electro-optics. The Distinguished Lecturers speak at LEOS Chapters worldwide. Please contact you local chapter to see when one of the Lecturers will be speaking in your area. A list of current LEOS Chapter Chairs is available on the LEOS web site (www.i-LEOS.org).
This year’s Lecturers are:

• Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama National University, Japan
Topic of Lecture: Photonic crystal, nanolaser, slow light, negative index optics, silicon photonics, photonic molecule
• Sergio D. Cova, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Topic of Lecture: Photon Counting Microdetectors and their Applications
• Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Topic of Lecture: All-Optical Control of Photonics
• Bishnu P. Pal, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Topic of Lecture: Guided Wave Optical Components
• John O’Brien, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, NJ
Topic of Lecture: Photonic Crystal Devices
• David Plant, McGill University, Canada
Topic of Lecture: Agile All-Photonics Networks – A Vision of Optical Networks for 2012 and Beyond
• Jorge J. Rocca, Colorado State University, CO, USA
Topic of Lecture: Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers
• M. Selim Unlu, Boston University, MA, USA
Topic of Lecture: Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biological Systems